I've always taken this to mean they are "local" scoped to a block just as if you has said local($1), apparently this is not the case. Or at least not the case on my build of Perl v5.6.1

Yes, it's not "local", for local also localizes a variable for one loop iteration. May be this behaviuor is not perfectly documented, but in fact I've never had any problems with that so far. You should not work with these variables anyway, but use your own for better control.

our $x = 0;
foreach(@values){
   local $x;
   /m(\w+)\.(\d+)/ and my ($f,$s) = ($1,$2);
   print "-- $_: $1;$s; ",$x++,"\n"
}

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In reply to Re: Regex Capturing: Is this a bug or a feature? by fruiture
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